{"id":52,"date":"2010-01-18T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-03-21T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:34:23","slug":"abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"},"content":{"rendered":"

First proper Sunday ride since Xmas so I thought I’d make it a good one, headed out of town and across to Geddington to ride Clay Dick, then over to Fermyn Woods, then Aldwincle, Lyveden Way, Bear Gate Track and home. <\/span>
Clay Dick is an old Byway that links Geddington to Brigstock and possibly the site of a Victorian Brickworks (hence the clay reference…). Anyway usually the top end is virtually unpassable, with the trees hanging so low over the trail that in some places you cannot even push a bike through……except this time the Byway had been ‘repaired’. <\/span>

\nBy ‘repair’ I mean they have bulldozed the whole thing flat, about 40 feet wide, ripping out all the trees, bushes, rabbit and foxholes and turning it into a mile of sticky wet clay that will take months to settle <\/span>.
\nSo I rode as much as I could until my EWR stopped working and my feet started to look like Swamp Thing and then I carried my bike for 3\/4 a mile <\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

I fought my way to Brigstock and crossed thru Fermyn Woods which was another, barely rideable shitfest before aborting the ride near Sudborough<\/p>\n

Wildlife count for the ride was still good, four or five Red Kites (all eluded my camera sadly), 5 fairly big deer in Fermyn Woods and six Llama’s…..yeah It’s true, although they could have been Alpaca, Clovius Hoofus isn’t my area of expertise<\/span><\/p>\n

Nice beginnings<\/span>
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Mud stops Play…<\/span>
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Magura ‘Mud Magnets’…wheel locked <\/span>
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‘Repaired’ trail – The Long Walk<\/span>
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Mud Magnets Part 2<\/span>
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FUBAR EWR<\/span>
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First proper Sunday ride since Xmas so I thought I’d make it a good one, headed out of town and across to Geddington to ride Clay Dick, then over to Fermyn Woods, then Aldwincle, Lyveden Way, Bear Gate Track and …<\/p>\n

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